Erin McKean Quotes

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

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HabitStoryStartingAnythingAnnoy

I hate prologues because they're kind of gimmicks to suck you in.

John Grisham

HateYouKindBecauseSuck

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

Andrea Mitchell

JobMeManagementWeekFiftyOut

'Give me your poor.' It didn't say, 'Give me your poor who can afford a $680 citizenship.' If I had my way, it would be free. If I had my way, the state would subsidize every eligible application, period.

Andrew Cuomo

MeFreeCitizenshipSayWayPoor

Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.

Michael Douglas

StarsAmericaKindHeBiggest

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Simone Weil

LifeHistoryImaginationInfluence

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.

Michelle Paver

ExperienceChildBookReading

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

Michael Steinhardt

BeautifulTimeMindYouMuseumDone

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

Josh McDowell

Jesus ChristDeadResurrectionWithin

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Brigitte Bardot

FreeOthersWildSideSome

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Anna Torv

LiveSeaWeatherYearAustralia

In India, women are still the primary caregivers. Whether it be for children, whether it be for old people or sick people, you are the primary caregiver. No matter what position you are in.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

WomenChildrenPeopleSickYouOld

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

Susan George

WorkCommunityServiceSmallYou

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